Api Endpoint

Ausref - Oceania reference data

Cost to employ: every statutory contribution priced line by line, employee and employer sides separated, with the schemes we will not price named and reasoned

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Offering

Provider
ausref.dev
Method
POST
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Financial Analysis
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://ausref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost
MIME type
Not provided
First seen
2026-10-16T01:51:10.599Z
Last seen
Tags
employment-cost, payroll, contributions, oceania

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.05 USDC
Atomic price: 50000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "50000",
    "payTo": "0x1F0409ccD20A2fb497d4DeCeF4E17e9d0688FeA6"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
1230 ms
Average latency
1050 ms
HTTP status
204
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 14 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "body": {
      "properties": {
        "childless_over_23": {
          "description": "Germany: adds the 0.6-point long-term-care surcharge, borne by the employee alone",
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "children_under_25": {
          "description": "Germany: reduces the employee care rate by 0.25 points for the second through fifth child under 25",
          "type": "number"
        },
        "contract": {
          "description": "Selects the right unemployment rate (ES) and the fixed-term surcharge (IT)",
          "enum": [
            "indefinite",
            "fixed_term"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "country": {
          "description": "ISO country code carrying a costed contribution schedule",
          "enum": [
            "au"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "gross": {
          "description": "Gross pay in local currency",
          "type": "number"
        },
        "nationality": {
          "description": "Required in the Gulf: GPSSA pension reaches UAE and GCC nationals only — an expatriate has no pension deduction at all",
          "enum": [
            "national",
            "gcc",
            "expat"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "period": {
          "description": "Period the gross covers (default month)",
          "enum": [
            "month",
            "year"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "receipt": {
          "description": "Optional. true adds an Ed25519 answer receipt on a paid 200, included in this price. Not a certified extract.",
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "subdivision": {
          "description": "ISO 3166-2 code where a region runs its own schedule rather than the national one — CA-QC swaps CPP/EI for QPP/QPIP, JP prefectures set their own health rate, NO zones set the employer rate. Regions held on this service: AU AU-NF. Bare and lower-case forms are accepted ('SN' and 'de-sn' both mean DE-SN). A code we do not serve is REFUSED free, with the list — we never answer a regional question with national figures.",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "workplace_pension": {
          "description": "Auto-enrolment participation (GB) / PPK (PL). Both are opt-out, so default true",
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "zusatzbeitrag_rate": {
          "description": "Germany: the employee's own sickness fund supplement. There is no national rate; without it the health figure is incomplete",
          "type": "number"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "country",
        "gross"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "bodyType": {
      "enum": [
        "json",
        "form-data",
        "text"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "method": {
      "enum": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "const": "http",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema

{
  "properties": {
    "example": {
      "properties": {
        "employee": {
          "description": "Employee-side lines and total — what leaves the payslip",
          "type": "object"
        },
        "employer": {
          "description": "Employer-side lines and total — cost of employment, not a deduction",
          "type": "object"
        },
        "employer_cost": {
          "description": "Gross plus employer contributions",
          "type": "number"
        },
        "receipt": {
          "description": "Only when receipt=true on a paid 200. kind answer_receipt. Verify at /certified/public-key.",
          "type": "object"
        },
        "refused": {
          "description": "Every scheme that could NOT be priced, each with the reason. These are unknown, not zero",
          "type": "array"
        },
        "status": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "status",
        "employee",
        "employer",
        "employer_cost",
        "refused"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}